Aging will change the landscape of health care, but impact will be slow, says Bob Evans.

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Health care is one area where you would expect to see costs increase as our population gets older. But some experts are saying that this is not necessarily so, that there are other factors at play.

"What you've got to remember is that aging takes place slowly," said Bob Evans, a health care economist at the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research at UBC. "Over long periods of time it will change the landscape the way a glassier does but it's not an avalanche."